Operating Partner Pacific Technology Partners is a private investment firm providing buyout and growth capital for technology companies. The firm is focused on companies that are active in the emerging mobile broadband ecosystem.
As operating partner I get involved with (technical) due-diligence on new investment opportunities, as well as help portfolio companies with their technical or management challenges.

Sr. Architect, US Project Manager Ice House is a global engineering and design firm that crafts unique and engaging user experiences from the latest mobile technologies, with expertise on all popular mobile platforms, as well as building custom backend system for CMS, Administration, and mobil APIs.

CTO and Vice President of Engineering CertifiedTime, Inc. is a service provider for Trusted Time. Using
its services allows precise setting of time on devices and computers, and
preserves evidence (evidentiary time) so that it can be used to create non-repudiation.
I was responsible for the development of software products (client software,
Web applications) and the hardware/networking infrastructure for the highly
redundant global timing network. While at CerftifiedTime I deployed new
timing centers in New Jersey, California, Chicago and Tokyo, Japan.

06/99  06/2000

Cyntric, Inc.

San Mateo, CA

CTO and Vice President of Engineering Cyntric, formerly known as NetFreight.com, Inc. was a startup trying
to create a B2B Internet marketplace and transportation solution for small
to mid-size shippers.
As the number 2 employee, I helped raise the first round of funds. As Vice
President I was responsible for all technical matters, including technology,
and partner and equipment decisions. Built a team of 10 engineers to create
and deploy Cyntric's first product.

01/98  06/98

Storm Technology, Inc.

Mountain View, CA

Vice President of Software In addition to responsibilities of previous position, now responsible
for overall software strategy and company-wide quality initiative. Report
to the Vice President of Engineering. Specific other responsibilities included
managing International software/product releases, release of improved and
re-branded Logitech PageScan USB as a Storm product. This product, as the
first of its kind (bus powered USB sheetfed scanner) was a significant and
successful part of Microsofts Windows 98 demonstrations.

1996  01/98

Storm Technology, Inc.

Mountain View, CA

Director of Software This was mostly a continuation of my previous job and title, although
at this point Storm had a separate hardware and software department. Further
expanded on the business development role, responsible for managing contracts,
contacts and projects with major partners such as EPSON, Adobe and Intel.
Overall responsibility for three subgroups: Application software, Software
Technology and QA. The QA group was responsible for both hardware and software
QA as well as CD-ROM configuration management and Installer development.
Successfully managed and completed many product releases.

1991 - 1996

Storm Technology, Inc.

Mountain View, CA

Director of Engineering - System and core technologyOver the years, my title varied to indicate my main responsibilities
in terms of product development. In the early years of Storm that included
responsibility for both hardware and software products. Later, when Storm
as a company focused exclusively on software, my title changed, and later
still, my team specifically focused on the creation of high value proprietary
technologies, such as a very fast JPEG compression engine, a specialized
virtual memory system for images, "smart" image filters etc. When
Storm started to design and manufacture scanners, I was responsible for
both hardware and software for several months.
I was responsible for many of Storms end-user products, such as PicturePress,
StormCard, ThunderStorm series of daughter cards, Adobe Photoshop acceleration
software, Apple PhotoFlash versions 1.0 and 2.0, Kids Studio (Macintosh
and Windows), EasyPhoto (Windows and Macintosh), all versions.
In all cases my responsibilities included recruiting and managing groups
of people, ranging in size from 1-2 up to 8, with overall responsibility
ranging from 2 to 15 people. This involved software, hardware and mixed
teams.
Further responsibilities included project management, product planning,
budgeting, OEM contacts and business development.

11/89  07/91

Storm Technology, Inc.

The Netherlands

Consultant and Founder Led a team of four engineers (hardware and software) in the development
effort for Storms products: PicturePress and StormCard (NuBus/VME/Sbus).
This involved Macintosh application software, as well as assembly code for
AT&Ts DSP16 signal processor.

1990 07/91

University of Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Manager Computer Support Group (CSG) Manager of a computer service group for the computer science department.
Responsible for 4 operators/programmers and 8 academically schooled scientific
system design engineers. My group was responsible for maintaining all computer
systems and networks. This included a combination of Ethernet (IP) and AppleTalk
using several routers and bridges connecting about 50 desktop workstations
(mostly SUN) and several large file servers and mini computers. The group
provides both end-user support, as well as programming services to various
research groups within the department.
This job further included an advisory function on all computer system, and
related equipment, purchases.
I was a member of faculty management staff and budgeting committee.

06/88  11/88

AT&T Bell Laboratories

Holmdel, NJ

Visiting Scientist On leave from the university, I worked with Adriaan Ligtenberg,
later co-founder of Storm, on creating a compiler for the DSP-16 and on
programming image compression algorithms on a DSP-16. Also learned C++ and
worked on a graphical UI using X-Windows.

03/86  1990

University of Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Ph.D. Researcher For research, see under Education. During my Ph.D. research, instead
of teaching, which I did on an occasional basis, I worked to manage the
new department of computer sciences computer systems and networks.
I introduced the Macintosh as the premier teaching tool for first and second
year students; a huge improvement over the Unix based system in use at the
time.

06/85  03/86

University of Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Researcher This was a continuation of the work done during my masters
thesis research, finishing a Modula-2 compiler and starting the research
later continued for my Ph.D.

06/84  03/86

Apple Computer Holland B.V.

Zeist, The Netherlands

Consultant As one of the first Macintosh Developers and experts in Holland,
consultant to Apple computer to develop and teach classes in Macintosh development
to new developers from Apples GEA (General European Area).

03/84  1990

Alkmaar, The Netherlands

Independent Macintosh software developer After introducing the computer science department to the Macintosh
in early 1984, I quickly became a Macintosh enthusiast and expert. I was
one of the early developers in The Netherlands. Did a variety of products,
including a MacPascal like interactive development environment for teaching
students micro-code programming. Also created a commercial product for installation
of SCSI device drivers and hard disk management.

Member of JPEG standardization committee Replaced Storm's co-founder Adriaan Ligtenberg as a member of the
US delegation on the International JPEG standardization committee. Editor
of and contributor to the file format section of the JPEG 2000 standard.

Education

03/86  03/90

University of Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Ph.D. researcher Design and implementation of an efficient machine for parallel execution
of logic programs, in particular Prolog and certain parallel variations.
This involved an implementation using several custom designed 68010 based
systems communicating through shared memory and using a proprietary operating
system (FADOS), hosted by a SUN-1 workstation.

08/78  06/85

University of Amsterdam

The Netherlands

Masters Degree: experimental high energy
physics Double minor in computer science. Worked on implementation of several
Modula-2 compilers and implemented software for a custom designed very fast
hardware link between a Control Data Corp Cyber 3000 channel and a Motorola
68000 for a dedicated network control. The work was done at NIKHEF-H, the
Dutch National High Energy Physics Institute.